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B-279393 1 (1998-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahsl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Marlen C. Robb & Son, Boatyard & Marina, Inc. File: B-279393 Date: June 9, 1998 Marlen C. Robb, Jr. for the protester. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Capt. James A. Lewis, and Susan A. Bivins, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Sixty-calendar-day performance period is not arbitrarily short, and is unobjectionable, where agency needs vessel returned to service as soon as possible, there is significant expense to agency in keeping the vessel at the contractor's yard, and vessel is considered to be of relatively low complexity for repair and modification purposes. 2. Solicitation estimate of 10,000 pounds of steel for plate renewal is not excessive or otherwise unreasonable--notwithstanding that it may result in offerors having to propose lower unit prices, and increased contractor risk in the event that less plating work is required--where record shows that agency's estimate properly was based on the amount of steel actually ordered for plate renewal under recent prior contracts for modification and repair of similar vessels. 3. Evaluation scheme which accords greater weight to definite item prices than to indefinite item prices is unobjectionable; it represents a reasonable means of preventing deliberate unbalancing of prices between definite and indefinite items, a problem previously encountered by agency under similar prior contracts. DECISION Marlen C. Robb & Son, Boatyard & Marina, Inc. (Robb) protests certain provisions of Department of the Army request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT57-98-R-0008, for the repair and modification of U.S. Army Reserve Vessel LCM-8289, stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price contract for all labor, materials, equipment and appropriate plant site to accomplish the programmed drydocking,

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